The life of Magento 1.0 is coming to an end, rather, unfortunately. The representatives of Magento have stopped supporting version 1 since June 2020. So, no new security upgrades, or no new builds, modules, themes, and extensions. The only choice you are left with is migrating Magento 1 to Magento 2. Our team of experts will help you with the Magento 2.0 migration without breaking off in your ecommerce store. You won’t face any downtime, data loss, speed loss, and performance issues.
You Worked Hard to Build Your eCommerce Platform and Customers
Act now and save it.
Hands down, Magento is THE best platform for ecommerce website development. However, if you are an eCommerce website using Magento version 1, you must act quickly to maintain your online store’s credibility and security. Your store is at high risk of using a dated and unsupported software.
You are left with only three choices now – look for external support for the Magento 1, upgrade your Magento online store to another CMS platform, or hire a Magento development company to implement cost-effective Magento 2.0 migration.
There are several reasons why we, 20+ years experienced software development company, recommend option 3, besides the fact that IT IS Magento 2.0 – The platform that provides hundreds of ecommerce-centric features to fulfil all requirements of online shopping.
We will discuss everything one by one in this blog. So read on.
For additional inquiry on custom Magento development or Magento 1 to 2 migration, contact our technical expert today.
Facts: Why Online eCommerce Platforms Must Consider Magento Migration
- Magento ecommerce developers wrapped up support since June 30, 2020
- CMS running without support are prone to multiple business and security threats
- Your online store can be a victim of web skimming, code infection that steals customer information, such as credit card details, mailing address, and phone number
- Your website design will soon become wobbly, performance will drop, and your speed will reduce considerably
- You will run on a dated platform, meaning you will miss out the best things happening in ecommerce technology
- You will also lose your website visibility on SERPs and potentially affect its SEO ranking. You see, Google doesn’t push unsupported websites
- You won’t be working on the world’s most powerful platform, despite the hard work you put in to grow your store. It is a shame.
Advantages of Magento 2 Migration Services
Ask any top eCommerce store, such as Amazon, eBay, and Flipkart; they will recommend Magento store development.
In fact, 50% of online stores using Magento 1 have already migrated to Magento 2. Here are the benefits of eCommerce websites powered by Magento 2.0 development:
- Magento 2 transforms the shopping experience with a brand new, versatile architecture, database design, and coding structure.
- The cream of eCommerce web developers worldwide is working on Magento 2.0 to make it the best eCommerce platform.
- Magento 2 runs 20% faster than Magento 1.
- The platform offers several administration benefits. For instance, the Varnish Cache facilitates multiple-admin users to create and edit product data without conflicts.
- It provides incredible user-friendly options for customers, such as faster checkouts, simplistic filter categories, international payment options, bilingual support, etc.
- The improved indexer increases search performance speed.
- Magento 2 delivers better security measures than its predecessor – password, dynamic Magento store file backup, 2-factor authentication, and unique URL.
- Boost database flexibility, server response time, web page activities, and background operation functionalities.
- Improved reporting for sales, customer data, products, and orders.
- Responsive site design to accommodate all mobile development needs, including progressive web applications.
How to Migrate: Magento 1 to Magento 2 Migration in 4 Easy Steps
CG VAK Magento Development Company offers agile Magento migration from version 1.0 to version 2.0. Our team of experts can migrate your old Magento website to the latest CMS in 4 easy steps.
Magento migration 2 involves three primary components: Data, Extensions, and Themes.
1. Theme Migration in Magento 2
Since its inception in 2015, the Magento community has continually introduced newer technologies and innovative approaches to provide a personalized customer experience in online shopping. Themes are one of the key elements that boost customer engagement and retention. Therefore, Magento 2 primarily provides extensive ways to create new exciting themes or modify the existing one in a way that satisfies the Magento 2.0 protocols.
Our developers are expert in designing new Magento 2 themes and making them responsive to boost user experience. Note that you cannot directly migrate themes from version 1.0 to version 2.0. While you can also buy and download themes from the Magento 2 repository, we also provide custom Magento development for finer, unique outcomes.
2. Conversion of Extension to Magento 2 using Magento Marketplace
Good news your way – Magento 2 supports all kinds of extensions, thanks to the vast Magento marketplace. Besides, our experts can efficiently convert Magento 1 extensions to Magento 2. We give special attention to extensions, as they determine the functionality and offer new features to a website.
You have to remember that since we will be changing the entire architecture with Magento 2 migration, it is likely that some or all extension of Magento 1 may not function. You may face performance and compatibility issues. Therefore, we suggest you migrate only relevant extensions from the previous version and download better ones from the Marketplace.
Popular custom extensions for Magento 2 are customer segmentation, SEO suite, and abandoned cart email. If you want your own bunch of extensions, you can hire CG Vak’s Magento extension development services
3. Customization Migration using Code Migration Tool
You can now beautifully customize your website themes, layouts, and customer shopping experience with the Code Migration tool of Magento 2.0. The code migration toolkit has other benefits as well. As we know, Magento 1 is an open-source platform; it means your online store is running on custom code. The toolkit enormously reduces the effort involved in bespoke code migration.
However, you may have to modify some of the migrated files manually to fit into the Magento 2.0 framework despite the tool.
4. Magento 2 Data Migration using Data Migration Tool
Only after extension and theme migration and customizations should you plan data migration. It is the final step of the crucial Magento 1 to Magento 2 relocation process. You can streamline the data migration by leveraging the Magento 2 Data Migration Toolkit. The toolkit securely creates a pathway for transferring critical data, including products, categories, store, orders, ratings, reviews, and other settings and configurations, to Magento 2.
The data migration is an automated process that runs based on the defined set of rules in XML files.
You can install the Data Migration Tool, a standalone shell application, into the Magento 2.0 store through the Composer. Before installing the Magento 1 to 2 migration tool, ensure that the Magento 2 store version matches that of the Data Migration Tool. For example, if you are using the latest version of Magento 2, you must use the most recent toolkit version.
Remember that the data migration tool only migrates data to Magento 2 architecture. However, our expert eCommerce development team has other exporting options that enable theme, settings, and extension exportation to the new platform.
Once you have installed the tool, you have to configure files to process the migration.
How long will the Process of Migration from Magento 1 to Magento 2 take?
The project duration will depend upon your eCommerce website. The migration to Magento 2 can take anywhere from 50 hours to 200 hours or one week to 1.5 months based on the existing coding, development methodology, customization, features, data, and extension.
Magento proves to be the best technology for eCommerce website development. However, to get the most out of the migration, here are a few recommendations from us:
- Completely backup your Magento 1 store, including the media, files, folders, and databases. Discuss this element with our Magento expert. He will provide better insights.
- Do a through and through store analysis. Remove all the redundancies and useless codes, data, logs, compared products, recently used product files, and media before the migration.
- The best way to save the production environment is by using a clone of your Magento 1 instance to perform migration testing instead of your database store’s original instance.
- Analyze your Magento 1 themes, extensions, designs, and custom codes to check their compatibility with Magento 2.
- Turn on ‘direct_document_copy’ to optimize performance.
- The improved indexer increases search performance speed.
- To minimize performance issues and stabilize uptime, installing a fresh copy of the Magento 2 architecture on the same hosting server where Magento 1 was hosted will help.
- Go through the SEO elements to make sure they are optimized and streamlined, including meta tags, alt tags, title tags, prefixes and suffixes, keywords, canonical tags, image and video files, descriptions, etc. .
CG Vak’s digital marketing team will make sure the best SEO practices are applied and state-of-the-art technical analysis is carried out before migration begins.
Final Thoughts
No matter how perfect the deployment is or how efficient the ecommerce developers are, switching from a dated architecture to a brand new one is a long and complicated work. Let’s not forget about the fact that the migration is not fully automated. Not yet. You will have plenty of manual migration to do, particularly concerning media files and products. This will definitely develop specific performance issues and security lags.
To ensure your website functions efficiently, test the Magento 2 store thoroughly. Hire professionals to complete the migration without breaking off your eCommerce store. CG Vak ensures you and our developers are on the same page regarding the project scope, phase by phase goals, and costing before we proceed.
Do not delay. Every day on Magento 1 costs your business hundreds of dollars.